By Zeerak Khurram -
NBC News
The Powerball jackpot of more than $ 500 million is still up for grabs after the New Years Day drawing failed to produce an overall winner.
As the amount grows, so does the sale of tickets.
Over the weekend, game organizers increased the amount of Monday's drawing from $ 500 to $ 522 million, with a cash value of about $ 372 million, the Powerball reported in a press release.
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The winning numbers for Saturday's Powerball drawing were the white balls 6, 12, 39, 48 and 50. The Powerball number was 7.
The game organization reported that more than 2.7 million tickets won prizes ranging from $ 4 to $ 2 million and some of the winning tickets included three Match 5 winners worth $ 1 million each, sold in Arizona, California and Florida.
Other winning tickets were sold in Maryland.
The last Powerball jackpot was won in October, in California, when a single ticket delivered $ 699.8 million.
That jackpot was the fifth-largest in Powerball history and the seventh-largest in US lottery history, according to the press release.
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Powerball tickets printed at a Chicago convenience store in a Jan. 6, 2018 file photo.Nam Y. Huh / AP
Since then there have been 38 draws in a row with no winners - the odds of winning the jackpot are around 1 in 292.2 million, according to the organizers.
People can buy tickets for $ 2.
They are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.